The other ledger for Texas: 47 rural hospitals modeled vulnerable to closure — more than any other state, in the state that has already lost the most — a shortage of more than 708,000 homes at the lowest incomes, one in five Texans food insecure, and an ERCOT grid whose 2030 forecasts run from 138 to 208 gigawatts depending on how much of the data-centre queue is real. And bridges that are genuinely among the nation's best, reported exactly as measured. Every figure is sourced, dated, and labeled — counted, modeled, or assessed.
How to read this page: the class chip on every measure is the honesty label. Counted = an inspection or enumeration record. Modeled = a study's projection or risk score — printed with the modeler's name. Assessed = a structured survey of required investment — needs as documented, not measurements of decay. Figures keep the form their source gave them; years are printed on every measure.
Click any category to expand it — every measure with its figure, what it means in plain language, and its source.
Hospitals — a record and a warning. Texas's 47 vulnerable hospitals (Chartis model, 2025) are printed beside the hard count of 26 rural communities that have lost inpatient care since 2010 — both figures are the highest of any state, from the same Chartis publication, retrieved in full.
Power — a contested forecast, printed both ways. ERCOT's adjusted 2030 peak forecast (138 GW) and the unadjusted total reported to it (208 GW) appear as a pair. ERCOT covers about 90% of Texas's load, not all of it; neither figure is a measured shortage, and the category note says so.
Food. The figures are Feeding America's Map the Meal Gap modelled estimates (2026 edition, 2024 data) — the current-need measure. No current Texas-wide USDA Atlas low-income/low-access resident count was verified, so no food-desert resident count is printed; the category note says so.
Water vintages. Drinking-water need ($61.3B) is the EPA needs survey as reported in 2025; Texas 2036's compilation of an earlier EPA edition put drinking water higher ($73.7B–$74B). Editions differ; the spread is disclosed on the record rather than averaged, and wastewater ($21.1B) is Texas 2036's EPA-basis figure, labeled with its compiler.
Dams. Two inventories are printed and not reconciled — the state regulator's 1,475 high-hazard dams (State Auditor, 2020) and the National Inventory of Dams' 1,587. The poor-condition figure is published as a share (6.1%) and was not multiplied into a count; 29.4% of high-hazard dams are recorded as not inspected, so the condition picture is partly unknown by the source's own design.
Broadband vintages. The 2023 allocation ($3.31B) and the NTIA-approved 2025 final proposal ($1.26B deploying to 242,903 locations) are different numbers from different stages of the programme; both are printed, labeled, and neither is presented as the other.
Traffic. INRIX hours are metro figures (Houston, Dallas, with Austin and San Antonio in the same table); no honest statewide congestion total is published for Texas, and none is printed.